A distending current account deficit, ballooning interest rates, along with a dropping currency: These were only a number of the distressing trends in India that Krishna 'Kittu' Kolluri contemplated on his 20-hour return flight from Mumbai to Silicon Valley in September 2013. Kolluri was thinking whether to assist alterations to NEA’s India strategy at the VC firm’s quarterly general partner meeting in the Washington, DC in the month of October and the prospect of missing out on lucrative investment opportunities in India if NEA played it safe. This case closely examines how a venture capital firm creates and implements a strategy to invest outside the United States.
New Enterprise Associates in India The Agile International Venture Capital Firm Case Study Solution
The case focuses particularly on NEA's actions in India to illustrate the various elements of this strategy. It asks students to assess the advantages and challenges of investing in an emerging market located half a world away both logistically and culturally, through a sizable, U.S.-based, multi-nation enterprise fund. NEA's international fund strategy is evaluated by students and determined as the very best investment strategy to follow in India given the country's deteriorating macro-economic scenario at the time. They examine NEA's decision-making processes, communication channels, and incentive systems for its India practice.
PUBLICATION DATE: February 25, 2014 PRODUCT #: E505-HCB-ENG
This is just an excerpt. This case is about INNOVATION & ENTREPRENEURSHIP
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